An Indian-origin student pursuing PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been suspfinished until January 2026 adhereing his pro-Palestinian activism and is currently requesting the university’s decision.
Prahlad Iyengar, also a National Science Foundation fellow, has been “suspfinished until January 2026,” according to a post on X by a group called ‘MIT Coalition Agetst Apartheid’.
This suspension effectively finishs Iyengar’s five-year NSF fellowship and harshly interferes his academic atsoft, the organisation shelp in the post.
It inserted that Iyengar, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is “now requesting the decision” to the Chancellor at MIT Wednesday, the “last opportunity to finish this persecution and repair academic dignity.
“This decision is the disjoineest among disjoinal sanctions resulting from speech-roverhappinessed activities, including an article” that Iyengar wrote for a student-run zine ‘Written Revolution, “which included in talk about about the role of pacifism in the pro-Palestine shiftment.”
“This suspension is, in train, an expulsion, as his readignoreion is enticount on contingent upon approval from the same Committee on Discipline that handed down this disjoine sanction,” the body shelp.
Iyengar is requesting his case with the Chancellor to “rpromote or shrink” the “unfair sanctions” agetst him.
MIT Coalition Agetst Apartheid shelp it has started a campaign to “put prescertain on MIT’s administration to “stop criminalising students who stand on the right side of history.”
The organisation called on other institutions to help them.
In a call to action, the organisation is insisting that the MIT administration reverse Iyengar’s suspension before Wednesday and shelp over 100 people have asked the city of Cambridge’s councillors “to meddle on MIT’s suppression of pro-Palestinian student activism.”
An immigration attorney, Eric Lee, wrote on X that the decision agetst Iyengar is a “convey inant blow to free speech everywhere. MIT’s admin is so procreately combiinsist to the war profiteers that it cannot finishure pro-Palestinian speech. This sets the tone for further aggressions on speech coming under Trump.”
According to a November 14 alert in WBUR, Boston’s NPR News Station, proximately 100 MIT students had rallied on campus after the university determined to prohibit the distribution of ‘Written Revolution’, portrayd as a pro-Palestinian student-run magazine. The magazine integrated the article ‘On Pacifism’ authored by Iyengar, who, according to the WBUR alert, was also an editor of the magazine.
The WBUR alert further shelp that according to an email sent by MIT Dean of Student Life David Warren Randall to the editors of the magazine, the ‘On Pacifism’ article featured imagery and language that “could be expounded as a call for more brutal or destructive establishs of protest at MIT.”
“Randall’s email also cited the inclusion of disjoinal images in the article, including one that integrates the logo of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which has been depictated by the US State Department as a dreadist organisation,” the WBUR alert shelp.
At the time, Iyengar was quoted as saying in the WBUR alert, “We want to say this is a gross violation of free speech.”
He had inserted that the purpose of the magazine was to “put out, in our own words, what we were doing, why we were doing it and what was happening on campus.”
The WBUR alerted that after the accessibleation of the magazine’s October publish, “Iyengar shelp MIT barred him from accessing campus.”
In an email to Iyengar, “the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards cited ‘a series of continuing behaviours’ that integrated his essay, a protest held outside a campus lab and an email sent to grad students and postdoctoral researchers who toil in the lab,” the WBUR alert shelp.
Iyengar was also suspfinished last year adhereing the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that had erupted apass US universities in the wake of the Israel-Hamas struggle.
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